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Why were we so far apart, even when we were together? It was a nice loneliness, like the sensation of washing your face in cold water.

Banana Yoshimoto

Me, when I’m utterly exhausted by it all, when my skin breaks out, on those lonely evenings when I call my friends again and again and nobody’s home, then I despise my own life – my birth, my upbringing, everything.
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Home Lonely Skins
People aren’t overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.
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Defeat Overcoming People
Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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Inspirational Life Love
If you don’t say what you’re thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up.
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Lying Needs Thinking
Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life.
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Back Happy Life Memories Shining
It didn’t matter whether he was nearby or far away. His image would drift up into your mind just when you least expected it, shocking you, making your chest pound. Making your heart ache.
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Heart Matter Mind
I never tell my boyfriend that I’m busy when I’m not. No matter how effective they are, cheap techniques like that just don’t agree with me. So it’s always okay, it’s always all right. In my opinion the surest way to hook a man is to be as open with him as possible.
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Boyfriend Men Technique
Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.
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Although Always Lonely Raised
You know, Chihiro, darling- all it takes is one little wrong step and you end up feeling frustrated your whole life, like me.
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Feelings Frustrated Littles
I love feeling the rhythm of other people’s lives. It’s like traveling.
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Feelings Love People Rhythm Travel
Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.
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Disappear Failing Someday
When was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light is our own? Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely. Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.
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Dark Light Lonely
I was happy. I loved the night, I loved t so much it almost hurt. In the night everything seemed possible. I wasn’t sleepy at all.
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Hurt Night Sleepy
No matter where you are, you’re always a bit on your own, always an outsider.
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Inspire Matter Travel
This is what it means to be loved… when someone wants to touch you, to be tender.
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Mean Someone Tender Want
Why is it we have so little choice? We live like the lowliest worms. Always defeated – defeated we make dinner, we eat, we sleep. Everyone we love is dying. Sill, to cease living is unacceptable.
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Choices Everyone Love Sleep

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